Brawler’s Rank 4 Complete

Phew, it’s been a while since I stepped into the Brawler’s ring. My shadow gear was pretty dodgy for a while so I wanted to wait until my gear was better. In fact, I was only able to upgrade my blue shoulders about a week ago so after getting several other upgrades and fixing up my reforges, gems and enchants, I headed back there.

Leona Earthwind – I was stuck on Leona for a while (which was the reason I stopped to begin with) and finding I wasn’t getting enough damage off to kill her before I had one or two groups of adds up. I ended up trying several talent swaps and strategies including dotting the adds (which don’t have too much health or rooting/mind searing the plants). I also tried Psyfiend which was quite effective until I decided to make one last change today. I swapped my Angelic Bulwark for Spectral Guise which worked like a charm on the first set of adds. From there, I knew it would be really close and it was – just watch out for her Solar Beams.

Dominika the Illusionist – I couldn’t believe how easy this was since it’s only one of a few I’ve been able to one-shot in the arena. As long as you focus fire her down, you can pretty much ignore her illusions and she’ll be dead in no time. I didn’t even have to move the whole fight. Halo was very effective at taking out the first set of illusions but found their Arcane Barrage to hit for ~10-14K so was a real non-issue.

Deeken – OMG! The second one I’ve been able to one-shot today. This mechanical will spawn moving electricity on the ground which is easy to avoid by moving between the gaps or jumping over the lines.